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Expert: Jan Karel Pieterse - 11/7/2009

Question
assume that the insertion point is positioned at the beginning of the txtName text box. which one of following instructions will select the contents of the txtName text box?
txtName.SelAll=txtName.Text
txtName.SelLen=Length[txtName.Text]
txtName.SelLength=txtName.Text
txtName.SelLength=Len[txtName.Text]
thanks

Answer
Hi Shawn,

You do need to specify the SelStart too, so this should do the trick:

   txtName.SelStart = 0
   txtName.SelLength = Len(txtName.Text)

If you use a button to invoke this, you can set the focus back to the textbox like this:
   txtName.SetFocus

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